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House committee introduces proposal to add immigration status, nationality to K-12 demographic data
Summary
Lawmakers voted to introduce RS32405C1, a draft that would require Idaho public school districts to report aggregated immigration-status and nationality fields in student demographic records and post aggregated results to the state superintendent’s website.
The House Education Committee voted to introduce RS32405C1, a legislative request that would add immigration status and nationality to student demographic data collected from Idaho public schools and districts.
Supporters said the measure would give policymakers better information to make decisions about schools. "We need some statistics, we need some information," Representative Steve Tanner said. "So that we can make better decisions about what is needed for our schools." Tanner told the committee his office asked the Legislature’s fiscal staff for background data and cited University of Idaho and Pew Research figures showing increases in foreign‑born and refugee populations in Idaho.
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